The book entitled, Heat Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing provides-an economic, social, and political analyses of the drivers of climate change. It investigates the political economy of capitalism and offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis to mitigate the effect of climate change on temperature, while also improving equity and social justice. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 covers the conceptual and global issues while Part II focuses on the affluent world. The climate change is a global threat, posing existential dangers while at the same time posing wicked dilemmas in coordinating global action to constrain it. These issues are of epochal significance and provide sufficient justification for Part I. The second part analyses `welfare states' of the developed world. It addresses how far they are dependent on the carbon economy and how they can be reformed to pursue both carbon mitigation and human welfare simultaneously. This leads into analyses of policy-making under different scenarios of production, consumption and growth. Different `eco-social' policies that could combine sustainable livelihood with human well-being are proposed and conclbsibm4 are summarised.

Women’s empowerment is considered to play a crucial role in food and nutrition security. We aimed to explore the relationship between women’s empowerment and food and nutrition security, in rural Pakistan. Methods: To estimate women’s empowerment, we developed a Rural Women Composite Empowerment Index incorporating nine domains. For indicators of food and nutritional data we used data of 1879 rural households from Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey (PRHPS). Food insecurity was measured through a caloric intake approach; nutrition insecurity was measured through recommended nutrient intake (RNI). Using the Rural Women’s Composite Empowerment Index (RWCEI), we employed multi-level mixed-effect regression analysis. Results: The domains of traveling safely (21%), time allocated to tasks (20%), and (lack of) domestic violence (19%) were the most significant domains in defining empowerment of rural woman. The prevalence of food and nutrition insecurity were 33% and 50% respectively. Regression analysis found a positive and significant relationship between women’s empowerment and food and nutrition security–the proportion of household who were food and nutritionally secure in empowered households was 70% and 98% respectively. Conclusions: Developing programmes and policies to improve the range of domains of women’s empowerment requires a focussed policy agenda, bringing together policy makers from a number of different sectors including education, economy, communications, technology and agriculture. Women’s empowerment has the potential to make positive changes not only in food and nutrition security, but in all aspects of family health and wellbeing.